[OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

[Peter Williams]

Either 12 or 18months ago, we had google folks in our conference suite to discuss how we could give them what they wanted (authoritative realtime feed of realty MLS data, with copyrights and licenses etc) and what we wanted in return - google to do sso as IDP (using SAML, openid or anything other means one cares for) to any web RP (including MLS webservers - SPs just like us that track about 6 Million web2.0 consumers/conversations a year.)

No way, ever, was the response. Cannot ever imagine Google releasing the "consumer" data to those folk.

What a change! Thanks Yahoo! For changing the market dynamics.

Be interesting to read the legal rules that IDPs now start to impose, concerning reuse of attributes by SPs. We will see if OpenID turns out to be a sham about UCI...

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Scott Kveton
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:22 AM
To: Eric Sachs
Cc: Joseph Smarr; OpenID List
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

Great work Eric, Joseph and I'm sure many others ... this is a big
week for OpenID.

- Scott



On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Eric Sachs <esachs at google.com> wrote:
> Google's IDP is now live.  You can try it on Plaxo, ZoHo, & Buxfer and
> hopefully more RPs to come soon.  Here is the blog post with more details,
> including information on how RPs can sign up to use the service:
>
> http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-moves-towards-single-sign-on.html
>
> And yes, it does allow RPs to request a user's E-mail address via AX as an
> option.  I'll let Joseph Smarr from Plaxo respond with details on how they
> are using that feature to further simplify the signup flow for Plaxo.
> Eric Sachs
> Product Manager, Google Security
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